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Baidu founder: We could take on Outlook, Gmail
April 4, 2007
The best way to guess what Chinese internet search leader Baidu.com is going to do next has always been to look at what Google is already doing - but until now email has been an exception.
That could be changing. In his blog (in Chinese) founder and CEO Robin Li has been musing aloud about the failings of Microsoft’s Outlook email programme, and hinting that Baidu could do better. Indeed, it seems the Chinese company might go bigger in terms of online email storage even than Google’s Gmail, which currently offers this correspondent 2,836MB.
"If Baidu did email, we would have to offer unlimited capacity," Mr Li writes.
Baidu certainly has a market opportunity, since Google is reluctant to set up a local Gmail service out of concern about the degree to which it would have to cooperate with the security forces and censors of China’s Communist government. Chinese can sign up to use overseas servers, but the government’s "Great Firewall" can also make it hard to access some messages. Baidu, by contrast, is happy to censor its content and could expect a supportive government attitude.
Now yahoo is offering unlimited email storage.in this point of view baidu should developed more difffernt thinking to entrance this mail marketing………..
Posted by: Engr. Murad | April 6th, 2007 at 12:40 am | Report this commentif i didn’t work in a chinese environment, i would’ve never heard of baidu
gmail needs larger file attachment capacity, not storage. who’s going to use 2 gb anyway?
Posted by: Anonymous | April 13th, 2007 at 7:21 pm | Report this comment